Comparison

PDF Maker vs Paradoc

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PDF Maker

Transform your device into a portable document studio. Convert images to PDF, scan documents, merge files, and compress PDFs in seconds. Keep your documents private and accessible.

Highlights
  • Convert images to PDF
  • Document scanner with edge detection
  • Merge multiple PDF files
  • Compress and reduce PDF size
  • Flatten interactive PDF elements
  • Rotate pages
  • View and edit PDF pages
Features
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PDF Maker transforms your iPhone into a portable document studio. Whether you need to convert photos to PDF, merge contracts, compress large files, or scan receipts on the go - everything happens in seconds, right in your pocket. CONVERT PHOTOS TO PDF Turn any image into a professional PDF document. Select photos from your library, snap pictures with your camera, or import files. Adjust quality settings from draft to maximum resolution. Choose page formats including A4, Letter, Legal, or let the app fit pages to your images automatically. Perfect for digitizing old photographs, creating photo albums, or preparing image-based reports. DOCUMENT SCANNER Your phone camera becomes a powerful scanner. Capture documents, receipts, whiteboards, and handwritten notes with automatic edge detection. The built-in scanner recognizes document boundaries and optimizes contrast for crystal-clear results. No more hunting for a scanner - handle paperwork anywhere, anytime. MERGE MULTIPLE PDFs Combine separate PDF files into one organized document. Drag to reorder pages exactly how you want them. Great for assembling project documentation, combining invoices for expense reports, or creating comprehensive portfolios from multiple sources. COMPRESS & REDUCE SIZE Large PDF files slow everything down - email attachments bounce back, cloud storage fills up, sharing becomes frustrating. Our compression engine shrinks file sizes significantly while preserving readable quality. Send documents faster and save storage space without sacrificing clarity. FLATTEN PDF DOCUMENTS Working with forms that have fillable fields? Need to lock down annotations and comments? Flatten converts interactive elements into static content. This prevents further editing and ensures your document looks identical on every device and printer. ROTATE PAGES Fix upside-down scans or sideways photos instantly. Rotate individual pages or entire documents in 90-degree increments. Preview changes before saving. Simple controls make orientation corrections effortless. VIEW & EDIT Browse your PDFs with smooth scrolling and sharp rendering. Select specific pages to rotate, delete, or extract into new documents. Thumbnail view helps you navigate long files quickly. Edit tools give you control over document structure without needing desktop software. INTUITIVE DESIGN Dark interface reduces eye strain during extended use. Clean layout puts every tool within easy reach. Haptic feedback confirms your actions. The app responds quickly — no waiting around for operations to complete. PRIVACY FIRST Your documents stay on your device. No files get uploaded to external servers for processing. What you create remains yours alone. Built for everyone who handles documents regularly: students assembling research papers, professionals preparing client materials, small business owners organizing records, and families preserving memories. PDF Maker brings desktop-level PDF tools to your phone - lightweight, fast, and always available. Subscription Terms: Payment charged to iTunes Account. Auto-renews unless disabled 24 hours before period ends. Manage in Account Settings. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download now and discover how simple PDF work can be.

About

Paradoc

This app transforms photos of documents into high-quality PDFs, offering a suite of tools for editing, organizing, and securing your files. It handles complex PDF types, including encrypted and form-filled documents, all processed locally on your device without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • On-device AI-powered scanning
  • Merge, split, compress PDFs
  • Convert PDFs to images
  • Encrypt and unlock PDFs
  • Handle encrypted and restricted PDFs
  • Fillable form support
  • Organize and reorder pages
Features
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Scan paper into a clean PDF, then merge, split, compress, reorder, lock or unlock it. Seven tools, free, all running on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no subscription, no ads. Your documents stay exactly where they already are. EVERYDAY JOBS Shrink a PDF until it fits an email limit. Lock a tax return before you share it. Pull the one page you need out of a long contract. Turn a school form on the kitchen table into a PDF you can send in a minute. Combine a stack of statements into a single file. SCAN Point the camera at a page, or pick photos from your library. Paradoc finds the edges, squares up the perspective and cleans up the page. An on-device neural model lifts shadows and uneven lighting, so a page shot under a desk lamp comes out clean and legible. Up to 20 pages per document. MERGE Combine up to 20 PDFs in the order you choose. Password-protected files are handled one by one, each with its own password. SPLIT Pull a page range out into its own PDF. If the source was encrypted, the result stays encrypted. COMPRESS Three presets: Light, Balanced and Maximum. Paradoc re-encodes images, subsets fonts and repacks object streams, the same techniques desktop tools use. Text stays text. Bookmarks, form values, annotations and document metadata stay intact. ORGANIZE Reorder, delete and rotate pages from a thumbnail grid. PDF TO IMAGE Export pages as JPEG images, from 75 to 600 DPI, up to 20 pages per export. PROTECT AND UNLOCK Lock a PDF with AES-256, the strongest encryption the PDF standard defines. Unlock removes a password you know, or clears owner-only restrictions on printing and copying. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Paradoc makes no network requests. None. There is no server, no sign-in, nothing quietly phoning home. Switch on airplane mode and every feature keeps working, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Your contract, your tax return, your medical letter: none of it needs to visit someone else's computer to be scanned, merged, shrunk or locked. The work happens where the file already is. BUILT FOR THE PDFs THAT USUALLY BREAK THINGS Password-protected files, including older RC4 and AES-128 ones, open and stay encrypted through Split, Organize and Compress. Files locked against printing or copying are detected and explained before you continue. Digitally signed PDFs are checked before anything is touched, and you are warned when an edit would invalidate a signature; certified documents are left alone. PDF/A archives are flagged before you change them. Merge two forms with the same field names and the result still works. Files up to 100 MB. A PDF comes out the way it went in. Text that was selectable stays selectable, and pages stay as sharp as they were at any zoom, because Paradoc works on the file itself instead of turning pages into pictures. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew, with full right-to-left layout.

Screenshots

PDF Maker4 screens
Paradoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paradoc at none against PDF Maker's 3. Paradoc also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). PDF Maker's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PDF Maker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Paradoc asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PDF Maker against 5.0 for Paradoc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PDF Maker ships an update every 2 months, Paradoc weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PDF Maker versus Paradoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF MakerParadoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIgor BidenkoVaibhav Teli

Customer experience

PDF Maker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Paradoc

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PDF Maker

Subscriptions2
  • PDF Maker$2.991 Month
  • PDF Maker3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • PDF Maker$14.99
None

Paradoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF Maker free?
PDF Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paradoc free?
Paradoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PDF Maker or Paradoc?
PDF Maker and Paradoc are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do PDF Maker or Paradoc have ads?
Neither PDF Maker nor Paradoc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PDF Maker or Paradoc?
PDF Maker ships an update every 2 months, and Paradoc weekly. Most recently, PDF Maker was updated on October 31, 2026 and Paradoc on November 6, 2026.

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